Democratic activists urged to be aggressive at Rep. Allen West town hall meetings
Activism, Headlines Monday, June 6th, 2011
By GEORGE BENNETT, The Palm Beach Post
Palm Beach County Democratic activists got some coaching last week on getting loud and getting ejected when U.S. Rep. Allen West, R-Plantation, holds another town hall meeting Thursday in Boca Raton.
“Make your voice heard. Get angry. Get upset – because you are .. .Attend every single town hall and get loud. That’s the only way the media’s going to pick us up,” Craig Borkon of the liberal group Organize Now told the county Democratic Executive Committee.
When one of the roughly 100 partisans mentioned getting tossed out, Borkon said: “Let them throw you out. Finally maybe the media will put something in the paper saying he’s throwing everybody out that disagrees with him.”
Since voting for House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan’s spending blueprint and its controversial Medicare overhaul plan, West has been confronted by some shouters at each of his town hall meetings. Some were escorted out, and liberal talk radio host Nicole Sandler was arrested after being removed from a meeting in Fort Lauderdale. Charges against Sandler of “trespassing after warning” were later dropped.
County Democratic Chairman Mark Alan Siegel characterized Sandler’s behavior as extraordinary “help” that others needn’t replicate.
“If they ask you to leave, you leave,” Siegel counseled. “The one person who was cuffed was cuffed because she continued to dispute into the lobby and was trying to help us make news that day by getting herself arrested. And she did.”
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so get people out the in crowd to escort them away and call police. my daughter just had her high graduation yesterdy and the police were there. we are a small town with alot of rude people whom do not have manners and will not always be politely quiet when this cermony goes on. the police spoke to one over excited man and we all clapped regardless of color. either be adults or be gone.
The Dems know how to fight, albeit dirty. The GOP loses these confrontations because not enough TEA Party members will stand up and shout down those who are obviously troublemakers.
NOt only that, but a conservative never uses these tactics. The simple fact that we stand up at town hall meetings in the first place is upsetting to the candidates in the first place.
We don’t need to manufacture a confrontation.